Senior Backend Developer
PHANEENDRA BALLA
Kovai Systems India Private Limited
Bangalore
Summary
Software Architect with 14+ years designing and building scalable, event-driven microservices and distributed systems across product, banking, and AI-driven platforms. Strong background in end-to-end solution architecture - data modeling, API design, technology evaluation, and cross-product integration - using Java, Python, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud-native infrastructure. Experienced translating business and product requirements into scalable technical architecture across the full SDLC.
14
years of professional experience
Work History
SDE-3 (Technical Lead / Architect-track)
1 Year 10 Months- Architected and delivered Floik's distributed backend, supporting interactive product demos, explainer videos, and step-by-step guides through event-driven services built with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, and AWS
- Designed video-processing pipelines handling 10k recordings per day, reducing p99 processing latency by 30% through database query tuning, FFmpeg optimization, and chunk-based processing with bounded parallelism
- Owned end-to-end architecture for the Floik-Document360 integration, defining data models, API contracts, and migration strategies across two product lines, with designs reviewed and approved by the organization's architecture board
- Engineered multimodal AI pipelines and prompt strategies combining video frames, transcripts, and interaction metadata, improving evaluated content-generation accuracy by 25%
- Mentored engineers and shaped cross-team engineering standards through design reviews, technical guidance, and architectural decision-making
- Kovai Systems acquired Floik, the product built at Ping Technologies - same product and team, under a new parent company.
SDE-3 (Technical Lead/Founding Core Member)
2 Years 10 Months- Contributed core platform engineering for Floik's Product Hunt launch, which won the 2023 Golden Kitty Award and ranked #1 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Week (Aug 2023)
- Architected scalable event-driven microservices using Java, Python, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, and Amazon S3
- Improved service availability to 99.99% through enhanced observability, automated recovery, failure isolation, and proactive remediation of recurring production issues.
- Led a team of five engineers, driving technical delivery, operational excellence, incident response, and the platform's long-term architecture roadmap
SDE-3
2 Years 1 Month- Directed data validation, analysis, and preprocessing architecture for Customer Churn, Demand Forecasting, and Next Best Product initiatives in the banking sector
- Defined process improvements that reduced data-preprocessing cycle times
- Served as primary technical point of contact for client service teams, aligning architecture decisions with delivery commitments
- Designed a secure end-to-end authentication and authorization architecture using Keycloak
SDE-2
3 Years 5 Months- Designed a multi-module, large-scale data processing engine and AI platform supporting batch and real-time processing, and ML/DL model training and inference
- Architected automated data ingestion, filtering, and encoding pipelines for large-scale datasets
- Built data-processing utilities (Spark, Pandas) for the ML team; sized and benchmarked Spark, Cassandra, and HDFS
- Developed a parser that generated TensorFlow code for common deep neural network architectures
- Designed a resource-orchestration system for task execution
Software Developer
2 Years 11 Months- Designed and implemented software solutions using Java, Spring, Struts, and Hibernate
- Delivered high-quality, scalable software across multiple client projects using Eclipse, Maven, and Git
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science Engineering
Skills
System Design
Solution Architecture
Microservices Architecture
Event-Driven Architecture
Distributed Systems
API Design
Technology Evaluation
Java
Python
Spring Boot
Struts
Hibernate
Apache Kafka
ZMQ
Redis
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Elasticsearch
AWS
GCP
Docker
Amazon S3
EKS
FFmpeg
OpenCV
AI-driven video analysis & workflow automation
Spring Boot Actuator
Kong
Keycloak
Grafana
Git
Maven
Eclipse
Websites
Architecture Highlights
- Owned end-to-end architecture for Floik, defining data models, API contracts, and AI-powered video analysis for automated narration and sensitive-content redaction
- Designed event-driven microservices architecture (Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Amazon S3) powering Floik, which won Product Hunt's 2023 Golden Kitty Award and ranked #1 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Week (2023-08-01)
- Optimized video processing at 10K recordings/day, lowering p99 latency by 30% through FFmpeg tuning and controlled concurrency
- Improved content-generation accuracy by 25% through multimodal AI pipelines and prompt optimization
- Built scalable, observable, and fault-tolerant systems
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeLocation Preference
On-SiteHybridRemoteLocation:
Bengaluru, KAOpen to relocation:
YesTimeline
SDE-3 (Technical Lead / Architect-track)
Kovai Systems India Private Limited
11.2024 - Current
SDE-3 (Technical Lead/Founding Core Member)
Ping Technologies
01.2022 - 11.2024
SDE-3
Razorthink Technologies
12.2019 - 01.2022
SDE-2
Razorthink Technologies
06.2016 - 11.2019
Software Developer
Razorthink Software
06.2012 - 05.2015
Sri Sivani College of Engineering
B.Tech from Computer Science Engineering